Waist-garment



(N0 Model.) 9 G- WAIST GARMENT.

No. 499,861. 9 atented June 20, 1893.

- UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLOTTE UEBEL, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

WAIST-'GARMENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 499,861, dated June I 20, 1893.

Application filed February 16, 1893- Serial No. 462,541. (No model.)

To ctZZ whom it may concern: Y

Be it known that I, CHARLOTTE UEBEL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Waist-Garments; and I do hereby declare the following to be afull, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

Myinvention relates to an improvement in waist garments.

The invention will first be described in connection with the accompanying drawings, and then pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective ;view of a waist garment embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a View showing the same garment before sewed together.

Referring to the drawings, A is the middle line of the back; B is the waist; C the front; D the front neck-portion; E the front shoulder-line; F the back shoulder-line; G the armhole and II the back neck-portion. It is plain that the line A is only an imaginary line as there is no seam at the back, the garment being cut from one piece of cloth, the lineA dividing the garment in symmetrical halves, each half being the counterpart in out-line of the other. From this it will be seen, that in cutting the garment, the cloth should be folded so that the half out-lines may be out both at once and both alike, the central fold of the material forming the middle line of the back. This middle line A is arranged to be lengthwise of the cloth, the waist line B, and the front line C being, therefore, cut bias. WVhen the front shoulder-seams E are united to the back shoulder-seams F by sewing, the garment will be as shown in Fig. 1, being then ready to be finished in the same manner as the usual form of waist garment.

It will be seen that there are no darts, nor

side or back seams in the garment when made in accordance with my invention, and the advantages of this will be fully appreciated by any one skilled in the art; not onlyis there a great saving in material, owing to the fact that no cloth is taken up in unnecessary seams, but a great saving is also accomplished in labor which is otherwise necessary in sewing the seams together and, moreover, a better fitting, easier wearing, and more durable garment is the result. It will be observed that the front lines C are cut on convex-curves, the chords of these curves being each farther from the middle line of the back at their upper ends than at their lower ends. By this construction the garment is made to fit snugly and smoothly. The curved front lines, having their chords arranged as described, serve to take up the fullness of the material that would otherwise exist below the arms, thus avoiding the use of all darts and producing asmooth fitting garment.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

As an article of manufacture, an ungored waist garment of one piece of material open in front and having its upper edge cut away to form arm-holes, the edges adjacent to the arm-holes beingsecured together to form the shoulder portions, the front edge of the garment being cut on convex curves, the chords of the curves being farther from the middle vertical line of the back at their upper ends than at their lower ends.

In testimony whereof I affix mysignature in presence of two witnesses.

CHARLOTTE UEBEL.

Witnesses:

JOHN GRADT, MA'lKERS MAYER. 

